Record: 14-29 Offense: 97 Defense: 101.3 Last 10 games: 2-8 What Vegas Says: Lakers -5.5 Gatinho the Scout: Seeing that the Knicks were playing the Hawks yesterday, I tuned in via “League Pass” to get a glimpse figuring that I would see the better side of this inconsistent Knick team against a club that was […]
Archives for January 2006
On Tap: Detroit Pistons
Record: 36-5 (Are you kidding me?) Nov: 11-2 Dec: 13-2 Jan: 12-1 Offense: 99.8 Defense: 90.5 Last 10 games: 10-0 When lightning strikes: Two of their last three losses are to Utah, a long defensive team. If the Lakers have a chance to stay with the Pistons today it will be accomplished on the boards. […]
Aloha
I really should be more frustrated with that narrow win over Golden State, but I’m not for two reasons: 1) it’s still a win; 2) I leave on vacation for a week Saturday, so it’s hard to be pissed about anything. The Lakers survived a bad shooting night (45.7% eFG%) and some frustrating defensive lapses […]
On Tap: The Golden State Warriors
Record: 19-22 (Pythagorean 18-23), 11th seed in the West Record last 10 games: 2-8 Laker record against Warriors: 1-0 Offensive Rating: 106.9 (14th in league) Defensive Rating: 108.3 (20th in league) This is going to be short, I think I’ve spent plenty of time breaking down the Lakers this week. Last time these two hooked […]
Midseason Report Card — The Players
We’ll go through the players in an order selected by me, with little rhyme or reason. Because I can. After the name of the player you will see his PER and his +/- (per 48 minutes), not the end-all-be-all of statistics but they start to paint a picture of contributions. By the way, there is […]
Artest in the West
The second part of the Laker midseason report card, focusing on the players, will go up later today or tomorrow morning at the latest. That said, there was some big news out west to discuss. How good does Artest make the Kings? Good question. I thought Tom at Sactown Royalty had a good line the […]
Midseason Report Card
The Lakers have played 41 games, exactly half the season, and if you had told me before the season their record would have been 22-19, I would have taken it. I think things will improve in the second half, but this is the perfect chance to do a mid-season breakdown. We’ll look at the team […]
The 80s Are Hot Again
Update: Want to see all of Kobe’s 81 points in just three minutes? Well, it’s all right here (thanks to Henry at True Hoop for finding this). Well Bill “Sports Guy†Simmons is even happy now. He still misses the point at times (read down a few paragraphs) but he feels vindicated. That’s good, as […]
“As Unstoppable as a Woman’s Tears”
A game like last night’s makes me wish that Jim Murray, legendary Times columnists, was still alive to immortalize it with his brilliant ability to capture a moment. The above title is how Jim described Elgin Baylor in his playing days and seems more than apropos for last night’s stupefying performance. Runners, floaters, threes, fade-aways, […]
81!!!
Still at the in-laws on vacation — I can’t beleive I missed this game (not on in Vegas). I just caught the ESPN News highlights. I looked at the box score, Kobe had a true shooting percentage of 74% tonight (the league average is 53%) and it looks like he couldn’t miss. Those of you […]